Health Care Decision Making Act 2023

The purposes of this Act are the following:

to provide authority to a hierarchy of persons to make decisions regarding the health care of an adult with impaired decision making capacity;

to include, within that hierarchy, persons with authority under the Advance Personal Planning Act 2013 and the Guardianship of Adults Act 2016;

to establish the principles and rules for making health care decisions, while protecting an adult's freedom of decision and action;

to regulate the administration of certain types of health care and prohibit or restrict the making of certain health care decisions, in relation to an adult with impaired decision making capacity;

to provide for the administration of health care without consent to both adults and children in urgent circumstances.